The Sun. — London, England, 1826-08-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF Tilt PUBLIC JOURNALS. By the average of accounts from the manufacturing ;dis tricts, we collect that there is no sensibleimprovement , in tne 'condition of our countrymen. It matters little how thiS or that local Stateinent may be coloured by, the ima gination of individuals- in the neighbourhood, or. by their knowledge, of particular 'transactions passing before their eyes, but in no degree assignable to general eanses, fitted to serve ton ground for inferences of any extensive bearing. The broad-truth is, that no progress towards the revival of trade, or the relief of the people, has yet shoWn itself el* evidence worthy of the least attention. Supply, extieeds detrumd—that is the naked fact, which we con ceivei t- iniquitous to disguise or qualify. , Arguments about. currency—circulating medium-7-a geld s standard, or silyci'.stundard—this or that system of banking- 7 -this or thet mode of employment for the .poor.---with fifty other discussions, raised. no doubt by worthy minds, , from good motives, and under confident hopes or effecting..sonte" ad vantage through them, are beside - the real question ;, they are like Dr. Johnson's plan of scarifying the skin of his legs' when the poor mart's "frame was sinking under incur able dropsy. No—the disease is more deeply seated than a resort to such propositions would imply. The notion of multiplying banks for the support, of : credit--or, in other words, for tt.ill further stimulating that production , which already outstrips the natural call for It—what are such projects -but contrivances for feeding the disorder ?, „ The nature .the reraedy must be obvious to those who rightly understand the evil. Create demand, , and cheek production—that is to say, prevail upon foreigners who have, for to - series of years taken off about 3-sths (by a mis print it was stated the other day.at 3-Bths) of the whole sutras of goods for which this country found a market — prevail upon these customers, we say, to purchase British cottons at higher prices and in larger quantities than ever, and for a time you will restore our working classes to prosperity;-for a . time, and, alas 1 no more! . The insatiable thirst of gain, and energy of production, have long been outrunning, throughout Great Britain, the regular demand for , goods 7 --larger bodies of jpurneymen-manufacturers have been gradually collected, and fresh victims. to the fluctuations of trade, have every year been accumulated : although, therefore, a temporary spur were given to consumption, the produc ing power would speedily, as before, take the lead, and another, and more aggravated, because a more extended revulsion, would spring train another glut. Du we Warne any man, or class of men, for these mischiefs,? No, surely; they are inherent in the essence of a system so exclusively, or at least predominantly, ,manufacturing as oars. : The tendency of creation to outstrip dethand, to lessen profits, and to bring round distress, is inseparable, we frOm a system, where so much sagacity has ever been employed, in the invention of mechanical improve ments, any pne of which may, and each of which has, in fact, tecelerated preternaturally the course and impetus of prodnction. The remedy, then, of a more extended null , ket, could it be attained, would prove but evanescent. Is such an expedient, however imperfect, practicable at this Moment 7 Again, we fear that It is not so. !Chas long been o:tr declared opinion, that causes of a regular and Widely-ope,mting character were in activity for the dlr.; tailment of British trade. • Foreign rivalahip, of these, is the chief. ,England has flourished not-by possessing a na tural or equal share of the benefits derived from manufac tures, such as they are, but from a share of them amount ing nearly to monopoly. Immense accumulations of capi tal —a prodigious expenditure —luxury all but'universal— reiterate& loans, and taxes beyond all precedent , - : -had pro (Weed a 'corresponding rise of prices---this a comparative depression of wages—the emigration of myriads of our ar tisans, atO the sacrifice of myrilulkwho remain to the effects of a competition rendered more formidable by their own des parted countrymen. , Such are a few among the strong fee, tures of our decline as a montsfact urink isople; for a decline gtje il I, et, deceive the nation, who have impiolence end Want of principle, and pressing interests to qualify them for such an office. Truth is our grand interest, our aim, .t constitutes those of all men of honour. We should look, therefore, with much indifference at the ex pedients patched up to cover the emergency, not to cure it, were we not satisfied that, every such attempt ,cure ritturislifresh fallaeies, and end in an aggravation of the iniblic disappointments and distresses. Upon the under takmig 4, a branch-bank from the Bank of gn g land at Glougmiter, Manchester, and elsewhere, we-have hint one remar3t.,to lx*e—in so far as those establishments may be maculated to renew the old facilities of credit,. for men who have been foreed to suspend their manufactures for the ,want of such rissistatiee—we are sure that no deeper curse could be intlieted,on this country than by their in troduction and activity. But if branch-banks be so em ployed as to banish unsound , country banks—to measure credit by real capital---thus to check, instead of men raging, the wildneas of -speculation, and to co-operate with the nature of things in conducting the kingdom to that state of manufacturing industry commingled with agricul' tural habits, in more equal proportions than we have re cently seen them, every .man may safely join in prayink foe success to the experiment. In the mean tune, 100k — we ecroitire and implore the still affluent bodies. of Eng lishmen-cast your eyes but once at the starving paid tude,e, immeent of offence, and patient amidst their ago niett; and withheld, if you feel it in human. nature to do so, the hand that would succour, and save, even for 'an lieur, without sirguirg about the adtinutte effloteimisness of that charity which Clod commands us to exercise al ways towards each other. If private charity be insufli the national treasury must he opened, freely and Netier will we stand by and see our blameless fellow creatures perishing, that systems, theories, or even states, may flourish,-- names. 'lire deputation of manufacturers from Birmingham have litre an interview with Ministers, but the wealth:A-not yet transpired. Their r epresentation of the.staw of distress in that g reat manufacturing town is extremely forcible, and accompanied • by facts eZleulated to remove all , doubt of its fairness; but they confine tbemelves, we understand, entirely to that representation, and do not venture to offer They are disposed to ascribe their mis fortunes fey the most part to. the interference of the Government with the. enrrency of the elnintry, and that at a time when it above all others, to have been left to itself. We need not enter ion, any argument to show how imperfect an explanation this is "I the causes of their distress, which evidently he roach deeper ; we give only what is salt) to be the case of the Bir mingham: manufacturers on their own show in g . rio t t h ough they asCrihe•their distress to the tampering with the etnTeneY, they : are taut- prepared to sasert, that a return to the old system pads' restore the affairs of trade to their former position, or that „ f u l h a return is possible after the blow that has heen struck at the t i m e* circulation. Prom branches of the Baal: of England they mt i c ipste little, unless the system of the country banks should be partin a d oi rod along with them that the Court of Directors, at jeueti nho od allow credit acCoonts: to ibe opened, and interest on deka) neither of which modes of doing business , have,:we learn, i h eial t eltest probability of being .sanctioned. The applitation of rite itirroingham manufactured, therefore,'eomes precisely to the same 'Obit with those which have preceded it; viz.; that the evil is found to be ineurable, for neither the • sufferers nor . the Government are .abletu suggest any letne. When d t he par ,return , an; ties Inane j u st to wise as theyve .: verted y e sterday to the prevalence of a feeliag,' that general int t in the state of trade was near at hand, we wish to be Pmve rnen " ' to of some of the more intel . understood .as speaenie tee senumen merattant!, rather titan our own conviction. - We - natarallyH creditlmgeitt l►at curates to theft own affairs, for more sags. give ; world an d we are desirous also, under, rtty than the re . s s'n - • le • ti I view of both sides of the thin head), exonnt an unpar a h v 6 t consideration of both, draw tine, that our reader') maY; fl on : man ', from which this pro- , iv l 7l o ;: v i e 9 r S o i e7t f. to -I:ee ,inferred, undonbtedly :dogs, at spe, f money., or rather of unemployed prout-ti Le v e r y much out of this way of common observe tion. IThe grawingabundance o (.944'11 °M3'll*'g scr ims . to to others. New s„pplieS 'otig evil to all those persons who d e rivediratiby iiitord44, 9 0 ' a t r ; for daily arrive from varions parts of t colt ) imstornem, Or ap , the Meal banks, either through distrust of the solvency oftheir Prghtlaiiti of the compet ition with the branch Irak++, arktreiluuct • 11941,113 V ing most plegs t aef;9l44lh " d b o or!, ploy the c apital thence arising on the spot , ar e c ompe lled to send 1 it up to 'London for employment. For the discount of money bills at short. dates the only medium now considered a safe, one, the demand is extremely circumscrilied.— Times. ,There is great tendency among . the Lords and Honour able Gentlemen who lent the sanction'of their names to some of the schemes of last year, to retreat from the things as soon as they show any symptoms of unprodue then," ; an d when they are proved, as so many of them ha-ve been, to have been bottomed in fraud and delusion, those Lords and Honourables, under the sanction of whose names half the gulls have been plundered, one and all de clare their utter astonishment and total ignorance about the matter. Now this very ignorance, be it real or fied dons, instead of being an apology, is, we, think, a great aggravation of the matter. - These Lords and Gentlemen, in plain truth we must tell them, had, one and all, no oilier object in joining any of these projects, but to put money in their Right Honourable pockets. They do not condescend to soil their Spanish leather boots, or their Bond-street pantaloons, by the vile mud of Cornhill and Cheapside, nor do they stiffer their brightnames to wan der from Almack's to a filthy prompectus about log-wood, tin, or tobacco, but in the expectation of bettering their over-drawn accounts at Coutt's, Drummond's, or else where. When therefore these Honourables descend to accept. of Directorships, &c., in those concerns, for the mere attainment of money, surely it becomes them to know a little of what they were about, and to be, at least, honest trumes of the property over which they were so obliging as to condescend to accept the controul. Were we Shareholders then, in any of these concerns, thus si tuated, we would not let, those Lords and Gentlemen off incite so easily, as there seems to be a disposition in some cases to do. On the contrary, we would stick to the skirts of those Honowables, and never leave tormenting them till we. got. ur money back. We would teach those Lords and Gentlemen, thnt Directorships, &c., ,tae not all honour and emolument; and that if they have been kind enough to share these parts of the concerns, they must submit to a fair proportion, at least, of the loss, and of the disgrace. We, hope therefore, that Mr. Clarke will attack the Lords as well as the Commons.—Morning Herald. We cannot perceive how in . the present circumstances Of the country, any part of the press can be advantageously employed in assuming a tone either of despondency or of exaggeration. - That the distress of many of the working classes is great cannot be - doubted, nor is it, on the other band, less certain, that a strong and universal sympathy prevails towards that distress from the King to the peasant It is too much then to assume, that any thing like indif ference upon the subject exists in any quarter; and be cause the well-intended nostrum of every politician is not instantly. administered to the patient, his attendants are indifferent either to hisTsufferings or the means of his re eovery. fly some, the evil is attributed to the. immense amount of taxation : this may be true to a great degree, but what truth is there in endeavonring to persuade the people, that the weight of taxation is principally owing to useless places and pensiens, and to the expellees of the Government. The very persons who say this, know that it is not true, and that, in fact, three-fifths of the taxes 1 are levied to pay the interest of the debt, and have no re ference whatever to the cause to which these misleaders of the people :would attribute the whole. We are .no friends to a lavish or unnecessary expenditure of the pub lic money in any way; and have no. doubt but that , there are expences of the Government which might and' ought to, be reduced; but the utmost that could be effected in this' way would act but as a drop of water on the ocean, towards diminiihing the amount of taxation, which has risen tn.its . present height from causes withvlnch the pre- Sent Government arid the preient generation have hail hale to do. When we see,, therefore, public writers stating, that It cheaper Goverropent is the only, remedy" for the present distress, we deprecate such language as mischievous, calculated only to Mislead men's Mothood.witilt them both to the real cause mid true re. Medy for our ' ttUnyerary 4to;ititin.' We use not ititioug . the advocates of the silly dttgintt, that, " truth should ttot be spoken at all times;" nor do we believe that the ftf fairs either of nations or of individuals were ever bene fittAby delusion of any kind. The tirat step towards retrieving the one or the other is, that both Governments and private persons should looktheir real situation fairly in the face. But knowing es we do. the Oombustiblt materials into which hunger. and privation, convert the populace of any country, we hold it unpardonable in any man, to cleat out untruths for facts, and by oVercharged.statements risk the public tranquility, fts well is the welter . 'of those whose cause they are thus prOresiirig to se rve.-4744. LAW T ELLIG 1111 Pit R. COURT OF CHANCERY, Atm 1. ' • THOMAS V. MONTGOIOVRY. Mr. MILLAR said, that about four tuentlis Ago the Court had made an order in the late Duke of Queensbury's cause, directing sums of money to be paid to tenants, reported by the Master to'be entitled to them, but that the payment should not take place for a fortnight from that time, that persons who might be .entitled to make arrests - , might have the opportunity of bring ing them in : none of those arreatments had yet been . made, and the Learned Okitlenninthought it time to claim the benefit of his Lordship's order on behalf of his clients. Mr. HART appeared for the Executors; he had no instruc tions to contradict any thing that had been stated by Mr. Millar, and therefore, could not make any objection. Ifis Loans= then ordered the payments to be made forthwith. POLICE TNTTELUyGENCE. •We are very sorry to understand that, for a con , siderabletime past, the town of Leith has been visited by a fever of a very alarming character.. It is not in all eases, strictly speak ing, of a typhoid type; but a feW eases have presented themselves in which the symptoms of genuine typhus unequivocally *kneed themselves—sthese, except a few rare instances, terminated fatally. The disease does not appear to confine its ravages amongst the pdorer elassei of the inhabitants, or those living in ill ventilated lanes or closes—on the contrary, several fatal instancei have oc. curred amongst the better fed or. wealthier individuals, and who re eidein open, yell-aired places of the town. Several whole fami. lies have been Attacked with nine or less severity. The sick waggon belonging fa the toWn; for conveying infected persons to the Hord Infirmary, is in constant requieltion., ' -No canoe has been assigned fur the prevalence of this truly alarming disease, but not a doubt can be entertained that, iu many instances, the stag. nation of tr&de, scanty fare, with abominable water (how leng :11101 Leith have this to complain of?), and the long drought, mast have had a great share in its production.—Scotsman. dAUSF, or TILE MIRAGE,-.-This .singular pheno, menon, which presents on the parched and sandy plains in hot cli mates an exact representation of a lake of water, sometimes ruffled into waves, at other times still and ~ : nooth, and appearing to re. fleet like a mirror the images o f houses anti other (objects situated beyond it, is the effect of a refraction of the rays of light, occa sioned by the heated and rarified state of that portion of the air which is in immediate contact with the sand. On very hot days it may be observed this same proems: of rarefaetion is distinctly Visible in our country ; although front the effects of vegetation at night, as well as from the narrow range of our landscapes, it is never followed by a mirage. In the evening also, in the less fre quented street* of London, we have observed the samephenomentm, although the sun has not little power ; which we ascribe to action of the heat retained by the pavement anti bricks on the air which haa puleally Cooled to a lower ternperature than these bodies. Swmt•tx, Bishop of Winchester, died ilt4y 15th, 862, and Was bailed 'at Winchester, in the churele . lard. His grave was soon Illaikt%l as peculiarly -efficacious the suf fering Christians, and miracles out of:number were recorded to have been wrought by his holy remains. Sum_an teesire henevOenee became the theme of universal praises; an order was obtained to remove •the holy relics into the •ehoir, as better suiting their merits ; and a solemn prom*. sio r n 'Watt appointed to grace, the ceremony. A most violent 111 , 1 ''''"w 4 ir , however, fell on the destined day, and continued for trurty.nine,oth ers , without intersiCrision : in consequenc,eof which, the idea of a removal was abandoned, as displeasing to St. Swain. iVnee . the vul g arg adage, that When rain falls on St. Swithin's day, It lash , for days." Experience, however," say's Mr! " lm t amply shown that. Whenever a wet J olson vets inaboatlieetel'of Jene t o 0 1 .# middle of July, at which time the heat or the sun ia usually the most intense, it generally con tintwe to nearly the end of summer, when the action of that orb h as con-, sidetably abated ; the rain affo r di ng mow f or e xhalation, alw a y i naturally the atrongeet at thaltottestperkul alb* year, atid.thoof exhalations )litldnig iii rouni,matter for rain. , - CRIIII. CON. AND ELOPEMENT. (We gave - an abstract of this case yesterday, and now supply t he particulars.] MANSiON-HOUSE.--.Yesterday, a gen tleman named flesphy, who is is respectable member•of the Stock Exchange, came at tended by Mr. 'Davis, the •solicitor, of the firm of Readon and Davis, and a number of friends, to prefer a charge of assault against - Taylor, who is a tailor, residing in Bear-street, Leicestet-fields. Mr. Heaphy stated, that he resides at St. John's Wood-grove, Regent's-park, and deposed that on Sunday morning the prisoner came to his house, and wished to see him. He went down, when the prisoner refused to come in, said be had something particular to say to him, and wished him to come out. Witness put on his hat and went out, when the prisoner began stating a long cue about his kwife. He said, (continued Mr. Heaphy), that I'd got his wife; he•said ,this thing and that thing about her, and said that I knew where she was. The LORD MAYOR,—Did you know his wife, Mr., llesphy 2 Mr. Heaphy.--Yes, my Lord.. I was met again.by him yes terday morning at Finshury-place, when he said he was a man in a poor way, and said he was willing to take a sum of money, when he would sign any paper or release that I liked. I made no pro position tnhitn, and lie came to the Stork Exchange, where he used very bad language. He seized me by the collar, created a disturbance, and said he was determined to follow me up. A crowd was assembled, and I was obliged to give him into custody. The Loan Itlavoo—sPray Mr. Heaphy, how long have you been acquainted with his wife? Mr: Heaphy.---I really can't exactly answer. The LOAD Marou-e--Do you know where she now is? Mr. Heaphy.—l can't say, my Lord, really. I know no More about her than a stranger. The LORD MAYOR proceeded to put some other questions; when Mr. Heaphy, who had answered with great reluctance those previously put.to him, objected to answer any more. He came there, lie maid, to prefer a charge of assault, and he wished tit, case to be confined to the fut.of the assault. The Loan Mavoa.—But the assault, as stated by you against the prisoner, is a very trifling One, supposing that you lutes given great provocation. I wish to see how that Stall. Mr. Heaphy.--If he conceives himself injured by m e in an y other way, he may seek his remedy in a court of law ; but I am not to be assaulted. The prisoner, who listened with great impatience to the state ment of the case against him, here raid, " I tell you how it is, my Lord. If you will listen to me, I have no fear. It is six weeks last Monday since my wife asked me to let her go home to her mother's. I told her she might, if she liked ; but said she must be hack loon, as I wanted to go to Vauxhall. She went accordingly but she did not come home till past 10 o'clock at night. "' Good God ! (says I) where the (1-1 have you been till this time of night ?' She said she had been at her mother's ; and that tit- re was Some friends there, and that they had persuaded her to stay with them. The next morning there comes a Gentleman to me that I knows, who says to me, Your wife's a ),ad woman : I saw her walking with a Gentleman, and knowing her to be your wife, I Mimed her, and saw her go with him to the White-house, in Soho square ; and I thought it but right to tell you of it.' I then, continued the prisoner, called thipervant, to ask whether there had been anybody about the house. '.Tell me the truth, Sally,' said I; have you seen, any body about the house behaving improper to your mistress?' She began to cry, and said there was a Gentleman in a white hat who had called and talked to my wife. He said to her he was sorry she was married, and wanted to go up stairs with her, but she would not let him. He was with her in the private paisage when the door was open, and my Wife said to the Shut the door, Madam e and he said to her, Sally, why do you not do as 'rout mistress bids you?' He then went away. I got a yoong man to watch her when she next went out, and she met a gentleman'and went with him to a bowie at No. 8, Oxendon-street : they afterwards went together to a house in Lichfield-street. I 'did not see them, but the young man saw them ; and I can bring the servants from the three places, who will prove that he went with . her there. He Iva" away about a fortnight, when site met hums in the New-road. He was on horse back, and shook hands with her." Ile then dereribed, that he aurprised his wife just as she left him, on another, occasion, and had not seen any, ailing of her since. The Loan Mavon.—You do not wish to ace her again, do you? The prisoner—Yes, my Lord, I tin riot mind trying it, that I about.). like to sea her agein very much.....--(l.oull . htutin.tr.)—.l liav4s tried AO- I. eau to .me tier. Ilovhydlte doe* not looor where she is, but I have good information that he saw her WA night. The Loan Mavoe—ilow long have you been watching your wifit'S Conduct ? The prisoner—More than five weeks. The Lcian Mavoit—What is your occupation ? The prisoner—l am a tailor. The Loan Mavoa—is he a customer of yours? The tailor—Not in that line.—(Roars of laughter, in which the tailor joined.) The servant girl, in the employment of the prisoner, deposed, that she: had seen Healthy come into the house. Ile wished to go up stairs; but her mistress would not let him. She had seen him come last Saturday weak, in the afternoon; she had seen him come and beckon .her mietrese out. The tailor added[ that he had been married seven years, and hail hid one child, which was dead ; lie declared he was all happy and right until this man came across the door. The neighbours had obeerved him shaking bands with her. Mr. Davis, as 'elicitor. to Mr. fluidly, treated the whole as conspiraerto extort money, and stated, that the defendant had proposed to take a sum of money as compensation, which proposal had been rejected. . The tailor said, lit i mele to be rid of the woman ; he received 500/. with his wife, when he married her, and he'statetithat' she was to have 5001. more as, sums as her mother (lied. r Under these eirctunstanceit, he intimated that he thought himself justified in seeking compensation. He told Mr. Heaphy there must be a divorce, which he ought to pay for, as lie had been the cause of it. se He," said the tailor, " wished, me to bring an action, but it is of no use your bringing an action, because 1 am going to sell all my property, and leave the country; so you will lose your action. I went to my attorney, who adviled me to make it up , if I could." The Loan Maxim—From the time you first • made the die covery, did Oil give: your wife no cause to suspect you knew of her conduct ? , • . The defendant. l —No, no ; I took care not to do that ; I wanted to catch thein,--(Laughter.) Mr. Davis, the solicitor, said that the defendant hail been told, that it was understood he required 2001. for his wife, but he in. misted upon having 500/., end declared he would, follow Mr: Ileaphy about until he wag-satisfied; he then created so great a diitturbance that it became absolutely necessary to have him - taken into custody. He had since he was in custody made proposal, through the'mediuin of the officer, to take his wife back for 2001. The Loan MAYOU, (to the officer who had the prisoner in nuts tody.)—sDid yon, Sir, make such a proposal ? • , The officer-4t was at hie request. The Lonn desire, then, that you never do such a thing again; it was extremely irepropers- It •is thy duty of the Officers to keep their prisoners or safe custody, and not to act as agents in such matters. Ilis• Lordship' then said, that the prie soner had certainly a c t e d in a gross and indelicate manner; and if he had acted under the. impulse of ordinary feelings, and given his wife's paramour a sound drubbing, (though, from his disparity of size, Mr. Ileaphy would not, perhaps, be under any apprehension in that re l3 lloll/0(eould have been excused in the eyes of moat men, thetogh not or the eye of the law. It was singular he had so lOrig looked on. The defendant—l was going to fall upon him, but I was advis ed not, and to bring against ]rem. The Loan MAY O Zlta at a t i r o tiSi n phy, said, that the de- Pendant's want of d e li cac y did pot, exonerate him; he wa s most culpable, and had undo ubtedly given the defendant great provoca tior4 try invading. , hisdomestic peace. On thke grounds, his Lordship said, lie should not call upon the defendant t o fi n d b a il , but should liberat e hi m , on hi s. promise not repeatthe distur bance at the Stock Exchange, or be guilty ofany breach any where , Mr. Jfeephy h a d l.tid himself , open to ,4 civil act i on ; his. Lordship preen: tie d t h at M r . Ileaphy was not; as h a d be en s t ated, about to leave the country . Ileaphy said, certainly not; was kiln% to pll the geo "nen there, and his respectability would not be questioned. The Loan MAYA said, be had heard mention of Mi. Heaphy's name, and had no doubt be' was respectable; but this action was notre/ectablt—tn be found in criminal correspondence with is marries o wo man was not res pectable in any man. Mt.' Ileaphy.--1 could not tell that shown married. Really, my Lord, there is no telling what women are married a „4.1 hail no more rea son to k now t h a t she was married the)! I have with respect t o any, f ema l e nowprelerit• The L oan M aYori— lt irnPrlbible t a c c o rding to the testi. ninny of the S ervant g irl, tint' that yo u s h ou ld kn o w she was married. The defendatit.--He is married himself, my tord;. be has not long married a you ng woman with a l arge f or t une; pi( th9old have seen how pale he turned whin I first mentioned the thing to him, for fear his wife should hear`Ofit. ..The Loan MAyon (to - Mr. Hesphy, in great surprise).— What, Sir, are you really married ? Mr. Heaphy.---I am, my Lord. The LOAD MAYOR. —O shameful ! shameful! Mr. Davis.—My Lord, there can be little - doubt that the whole is a conspiracy between the husband and wife to extort money.— This virtuous woman, my Lord, laid hold Of him as he was re turning home in a state, of intoxication. The Loan MAYOR made no further remark, but discharged the prisoner from custody on his promising not to interfere 'with Mr. Heaphy again in the same manner. As he was leaving the bar, lie exclaimed, looking at Mr. Heaphy, " I'll have a turn with you in another way." 'The Lord Mayor recalled him, when he explained, that he meant to seek his remedy by a civil action. The case was then dismissed. GUlLDHALL.—i r eiterday Mr. Robarts, a printer in Shoe-, lane, appeared before Mr. Alderman ANSLIT,Y, to answer to seve ral informations filed against him, at the instance of Alderman Wood, for printing certain squibs against that worthy Magistrate during the late election, without affixing thereto the address of the printer. The City Solicitor , app eared for - Alderman Wood, who was in attendance. „ • The first information set forth that Mr. Robarta did, on the 16th of June, being above 40 days after the' passing of. the Act 39th •Geo. 111., cap. '79, print a certain paper, headed " Homan Catholics," on which he omitted to print his name and place of abode. Two objections were taken to the form of the information.' First, that it should have stated the offence was committed after the passing of the 51st Geo. HI. cap. 65, which was an Act to explain and amend the former Statute., The second was, that in the third clause of the 51st of the late King, it was provided that the name and residence of printers should not be required to b a nk-notes, deeds, policies, &c., or to any paper printed by au thority of any public board, or public Offieef. The City .Solicitor replied, that with respect to the first objec tion, the act of the ,51st did not alter the offence,. but inertly limited the amount of penalties is be recovered, and therefore Roberts was rightly stated to have offended only against the . 49th. As to the second, the law upon the subject had been deterfnined in the King v. Ford, the King v. Bryant, and the' King v. Hall, but especially in the latter,,,:where it was broadly laid down that an information need not, negative exeMptiona contained ,in a sub sequeut dense to that on which it was fuunded, nor in a Inbse... quent statute. , Mr. Alderman ANSLEY, under the' advice of Mr. Payne, held both objections to be bad. Mr. Alderman Wood said, as the press had taken some liberties.' with him upon the subject of these informations, he wished' to state, that the several adjOurnments of the case had originated with the defendant, and that he knew his Counsel was not paid by Mr. 16barts, but by a certain party, whO would also pay the penalties. . . The City Solicitor then proceeded with his case. James Snow, beadle of St. Martin's, Ludgate, deposed, that lie' . took a he produced from John Hill on Ludgate-hill on . the 16th of June. John Hill said, he applied for work as a preasman at Roberts's on the 16th of June, was set, to print off a number of the bills in queation, and was euhiequently employed by Mr. Roberts to dis tribute their on Ludgate-hill, while doing which he was aelted by Snow, and his stock of bills taken from him. The bill was then put in. it commenced thus : ‘, Oh i Livery of London town " Sup Port our only hope, " You see that Wood is going down, " Who's only for the Pope. " Oh; how The Protestants will crow, " If thus you give them scope ; " Support then, Wood, and thus you'll show , " You can support the Pope." Mr. Alderman 'Wood prayed that the sitting Magietrate Would inflict the heaviest fine, because it would not ultimately fall on Bobarts. . Mr. Alderman Awsf,tv, howeVd, said lie should treat the case as if it were to fall on him, and fined him in the lowest penalty, which was 51. lie regarded the paper as a common electidneer ing squib, The City Solicitor thought it was something more than that. Mr. Roberts has 26 days to consider whether he will appeal or pay the fine. Air. Roberta wished to hare the whole of the informations heard; but the City flolicitor hinted that he intended to tile ieveral.more, and asked Mr. llobarts if be would now give up his a uchoe„. . The 4efauda4czeistea, that wax out of his power, for he eliel uot 3c4PNTIZIOI7 - 7 - .1 -- After some desultory vouver.ation, the hearing'of the informa tions already filed was adjourned sine die. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—RaIph Jolley, who was tried and acquitted at the last Sessions for a robbery on General Bird, was charged with assaulting a man framed Wieki, who was unable to attend. The patrol stated, that on Monday evening he saw Jolley, with three other men, beating Wicks, and a woman, now at the'bar, pelting tins with mud. , • The woman said that Wicks had first insulted her, by taking off her bonnet and kicking it. She admitted having pelted him.' Jolley said that he merely went to see the row, and the patrol took him directly. He denied having participated in it, but accused the 'patrol of taking 'hini 'because he had been tried before.-The Magistrate remanded him till Vriday. • . . to h C av t e tt i t m il e i n g consideredpurseand4asapnicarKtTagmipwoacsKasetsregsweiartnly taught, an coat cutting now is by professors, on " scientific principles," At the July Sessions, 158 h, as appears by Stow's Survey of London, considerablkattention was given by the magistracy to the diseovery and suppression of houses of resort fur thieves, Fleetwood, the recorder to the Lord Treasurer, with others of the Bench, dis covered sixteen of these 'rouses in London and Westminater, and two in Southwark. In one of these, an ale-house in Smart's_ Quay, near Billingsgate, the arts of cutting purses and picking pockets were taught scientifically. This was kept by one Watten, a " gentleman born, and' once a merchant of good credit, but fallen by time into decay." He had a regular school for teaching youth the necessary dexterity of hand which their trade required ; and which was done by hanging up a pocket and a purse, one containing counters and the other silver, each of them being " hung about with hawk's bells, and having little sacring bell" at top. The pupil was instructed to take out the silver and the counters without gingling 'the bells, which, when he had accom plished, his proficiency was rewarded by calling him a Nyyper and a Foyster ; the former term signifying a picklmrse. or cut purse, and the latter a pick-pocket..... Cinque Ports Herald. WEsT INDIA COMPANY.--011 Monday a meeting Lon donbtkhribroached, cdc ; : a vi v nli er :p aana Company tt: ,wllitiasnta,nbi lin abundancegi h i n . 0. t r h of the Proprietors of this Company took place at the City ' of the attention of the meeting to the circumstanees under which by many gentlemen, s cawh e p h iet a an i;' ) . t)hreev T ap l i t il e aedn ehairman called ilirable to invest part of that superabundant capital in British West Indian property, than many of the wild schemes then' afloat. The Company wall accordingly set on font, and a Royal Charter considered was throughout u r o g r i h i e Y e. 4 1 t4iPeCt.,. r r4 state of public aff a ir s had, however, lately under gone a re markable change, and the . Dlreetors relt - strottglY‘that the present moment was not a proper time for calling upon those gentlemen who had favoured them with their nettles sui subscri bers, for the further investment of capital. At the same time the Directors were anxious that the advantages which they had ob tained in the shape of an Act of Parliament and a Royal Charter should not be wholly lost, which would be the use if the Com pany were, to stop altogether. They therefore recommended, that as the present moment was not a favourable one for 'uniting capital in Wef lndian Property, the CoMpany's ftinds should be placed in some kind of Government Securities for the present. The Company would then, at some future period, be able to avail themselves of the advantages which they possessed, and fulfil the purposes for whirl they wore originally formed. The Secretary t t ipT) h eah e sh n er neld r eo e eil t I,iriettmab reporttherefore, ftjosnrgei:ofi‘7urin!tiiioeief:: ibit l .han3 )! lta t otcs h boo e e9r nfe D i xpyt p ea t i r snl e eisy c l.: t lc o oi s oenu: , nrpeep: f r it :emu n ioyB4s,ftbitr.ievovedsnlh sublet s r 115. choose is t tioni Ott shares, W moat h important °s of r a vi.. ' r ii e ell i " :„, "bv ii e t rrt :;,S et e ' ' r i ' 44 O Ui) str i ng Tire resolutions, t i C °U lti O rg iii i ii t glk l U ir l h h l o pro Pre the arg withdraw, 4/..155..fur every hi, which they had paid, and another, authe-, rising the Director' . to invest such capital in such GovernMent securities as to them should seem advisable, and be approved of by th e proprietors at large. After short conversation the reso-. e ll re ire gh c rr i ee ors a , t4 tite an m d ee i l i g p. been voted to the Chair manltiotatanwd A school-boy, reading a Scripture lesson one morn ing to his master, came to that part where, speaking of Solomon's palace, i t remar k s, , c the windows were car buncles, and the door was aga t e ;" b u t lie, being by no mea ns a deep-read l ap id ary, pronounce d t h e sentence the windows were crabs' ancks, anti the door was Irete." • 1 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY, FRIDAY, AuQuir 4. (At dui Cpurt of Commissioners.) ti. J. Barton', High'Wyeinitti, paper-maker at I A. Barker, Somers-place, West,'apothecary Collings and Mangy. Bishopsgate-street, merchants ... . .... T. Dauncey, Cateaton-street, commission-agent G. Harris, Battersea-fields, warehouse-keeper J. Lane, Strand, cheesemonger J. 'Marsh, King's Arms-yard, wool-broker J..and'G. Peers, Watling-street, merchants S. P. Rolls, Old Fish-street, ironmonger I I I t) J. Thomas, King's Stanley, clothier COUNTRY DIARY. J. S. J. and 11. Allen, Birmingham, at the Royal Hotel, Bit , mingham C. Carnets, Liverpool—George, Liverpool ' 11 .1. Coupland, Liverpool—George, Liverpool I Sir W. C. Fairlie, Liverpool—George, Liverp001........ ...• I F. Frince, Wakefield—Sessions Honse, Wakefield Hi Flint, Feartihead—Nag's Head, Warrington R. Gough, Brislington-L-COmmereill Rooms, Bristol .... . W. Hope, Bury—Star, Manchester , A. and G., Johnson, York—Mr, Gleadow's, York W. H. Liwience, Bath.-;-Bush, Bristol I 10 R. Leigh, Manchester—Messrs. Battershy's, Manchester P. Richardson, Liverpool—George, Liverpool H. and J. Wainwright, Liverpool—George, Liverpoo l HE M ARKETS. (From the New London Price Current of Tuesday, Aug. 1 ' ) Carron.-There was a good demand for Cotton lest week ; the sales amountingto 4,000 bales, viz.-2,800 Surate 4id. a bid. ; 800,. Bengal, 4' d. a bid. ; 60 Pernams 10d. ; 50 Mobile 4 f d. Jo 100 lloweds 6d. a 61(1. ; 100 Doinin &la. to 74d., in bowl ; and, duty paid, 5200 Demeraras 9d. a 9 a. ; 150 Carriacou 8(1. a 94d. The request for Cotton is limb ; the purchases yestenlAY and this forenoon are confined to 20 bags Cotton. Suome,---The market for Muscovadee was apparently heavy last week, as the business of this port.luts lately undergone a eon sidereal alteration ;- little business being effected at an early hour of the market, but 'orders left with the brokers for the considera tion of the holders, 'which generally ended in extensive woo tions at a lets hour in the day ; we report that the bullies.' of last eek exceeded 3,500 hhds. of Muscovades , though t h e market was . *pparently in a languid state. The prices were without slurs" lion, except for the fine and coloury descriptiOns of Museoeaa" , which, from their scarcity, commanded rather higher prase; the late extensive imports being chiefly inferior. brown' Sugars which remark applies to a series of years; the quality of the West India Musoovedes falling off materiallyi but that the fine should it this early period be scarce, is rather a novel eireonniunce. The de liveries from the warehouse continue extensive, nearly 4,000 alle Weekly, besides the large quantity of Mauritius also taken for hood consumption; last week there were 3;763 bags ; the stock of ?t corades is now 9,000 hhds snore than last year. The purchaae et Muscovades by private contract to-day are estimated at 800 lihitr,;, the prices are unvaried. The Barbadoes Su g ar, and the small quantity of Mauritius at public sa le, went off heavily: we helke the latter was not disposed of; Barbadoes b B s a 70 * 6d., Mow tins 545. a 57e. The business done in Refined goods last week ' was on an extensive scale ; the wholesale grocers purchasioe floc goods largely for the hom e consum p tion of the country ; for the crushers taking extensive par cels of low l um p s, and the request shipping to the Mediterranean be i ng more brisk than IsT sow time preceding. Molasses were 245. W. There was also.* DI, feature in the market ; green bastards, which have been only 1.4,, for the home trade , came into e x t ensive demand, on the hounty !)i 271. on export being ascertained ; they sold 17s. a 255. foie D 1 board. There is no material alteration in the Refined 0 . 11 , e ` this morning; the wholesale grocers continue their ptirchi. the home trade; the shippers still make inquiries, but they b., 11 ::, hot purchased largely this morning. Molassee are 245. 6d. 'IT holders of Foreign Sugars were asking higher prices last 'IT_ on account of the general improvement in trade, • but the.tran ,c -tions were limited. . advance of le. a 311. per cwt., but the market was in a very 1' 133 , Cores:lr.-The public sales of Coffee last week went offo i t :: tuating and uncertain state; St. Domingo sold at 455. and 4 b s : t6h There were two public sales to-day, 116 casks and bags II ( ' „, Plantation ; the whole went off with great briskness, At an . 11 - 0 lee advance of 2s. a ss. per cwt. ; good middling Jamaica, %ch ic !' ,-,, been valued Bls and 825., sold 87s. Gd. 'a Otis. ; fine fine ortlin'' y which heel week 60,1.51*. a 525., sold 58s. a 58*. ; good ora ill/tr 'i hold 48a. a 500. There was no Foreign Coffee in the 10 4 , 0 ,,, iii the holders generally will not sell; the nominal price RI Iv'' a 48a. for St. Domingo. prig • Taa.-Tea remains steady, about the India House sale P -1 1 , Rum, BRANDY, and HDLLANDS. -The Rum -market -as s r e ,' • cidedly more firtn last week : no Leewards could be purch oe ',,": der Is. 11d. but 2 and 4 over'could be bought at the sam e e". ; ,` . ' yesterday there was a considerable agitation in the Runt nuivw°tlt, account of a 'meeting of the London distillers, about the pv911 11 0 ; of advancing Corn Spirit, on account of the reported stsfi.ef ~,, present crop; we understand the measure was u naningtioL -1 0 proied of, but for the consideration that the Scotch distiller/ wv",,, make another effort to get their Spirit into consumption la',' land ; they, therefore, separated without any decided resat: but the general' opinion is, . that 'the. Measure will shortlY l t er • flounced ; the rise was reported about 6d. per gallon ; the t&D'ult, of Rum, ip consequence, evince no Methadon to sell fort:OP sent.-Rrandy . and Geneva unvaried. . • fsli." SILL-The partial briskness in the Silk trade bas agton ~ , off ; the late advance is, however, maintaine d, particularly 0 " Silks are held with firmness. . ku tis Fnurr.-In consequence of the brisk demand for ": t ,.4 Raisins, and . the quantity on hand being small, the pror e it ) i, are asking a further advance, and hold out for bOs., whic h , e . believed has been obtained; Red Smyrna raisins are iu c os Jr. quenee more sought after , b ut th e holders of those also a lt mantling higher prices ;• in other descriptions no a lteration . ~„,.. Tobacco --The puch as e s o f Tobacco since our lot g r.. J , o f fined to about SO hbd. Strips at 5„ an d a f ew w all par Virginia Leaf SI a Sid. buss Paovistoe w sr lic ilee h fei f i an ina d t P er o i r z k iy ar o e n u u nv co a u ti n ed t • of t v h t t h r .: o , i , 1.43 no : Butters, d ni tilt ' large importations from Holland, air s,l flat firmness, on account of the return of dry. - weather. Bacon is steady about 61s. ii h e° - d ah ei r an wu d i . ttom ß . Woot.--There is a little business doing in Wool ' 01- e ''' • • ..04' bless us to give quotations; a partial rev i va l i n t h e trade i5,. 1. .00 p a t t d ; the quantity of - go ods on hand is i rmair id a reble I '7O ports of Wool have bee n limit e d f or some tim e past, 1041° -' are still extensive. fsviD i r. , v • Hors..-The accounts from the H op districts are Ye. ' 1,0, ', able; .the burr, which only appeared at the top o f tbe l' 0 , - , er now generally spreading i n th e l ower b ranc hes, yet ti'e n:eltleOl perienced • seem to be of opinion that the duty was 11 0 0 0 t'' advanced: it has ' fl uctuated s i n c e thi s day week at ~ be 185,000/. ; the estimat e thi s d ay 180,060/. ; there ar:"lucjio of 1825 left in the market, except some S t x Pock et* -- , : „ . 1 about TOL, and helps' of 1824 are nominally '7l. 1.? ii I","'‘ • • •,IIEMP, FLAX, AND TALLOIV..-The Tallow illa i r i -t , ~ °;: varied, 331. 6d., and for the new 345. ; the new , 1 1 6 ( - ;• t h e w , veil-inferior Waality• 35/. i* the nearest price, and 3 ''' --c 0 °' ''''' Flax continues in request, in consequence of the (10001° K. slb crop ; St. Petersburgh 12 head sw. a 33/ ; Riga.E., the Er The letters from St, Petersburgh '• stl "" .., are to the ) , o' elutnge was 9d. 1-16th. ~, the e l Ott . s.-The vague accounts from Greenlend are '- ti. 31 Irt .- ...16 June; the failure of the Fishery is stated, but the reP' bo re - , old date, and has little effect on Oils ; the holders art' re' more firm, and will not eell but at an a dvance. liq e - Oils are also held for higher price*. - -- —_ , MARRIED. „.. n „k.strs*L r 's 7l On the listing., at hilvart's Hotel, Lower '"'"—, At Pr . ,/ special license, by the Rev. D r . Dibdi s (Rect or m -," 01 Alarylebone),.. Sir Edward .I),lostyn, Bart ., of tr.L.'''' t; Wale., to Consiantia Slaughter, of Fur It nallt 1 '7:,„,0 1 ' r:' datOtter of the late Henry Slaughter, Esq., and OW7 0 , countess Montague, i,, On the Ist' inst., - at St. s amei e„, . Caimll4 of Putn ey , to Eleanor relict of the Revr;/ . dock, of Wimbledon , Si ' 'Westminster, rrey. .........„...----"- • lite lb IMED. Vrig 0 On the . 29..k. ult. at his residence, North Lag e ' I ,i s io t/I ti i, Richard Ironmonger , ' Esq., 101 54 yeitrih an se tive SVP i r for the county of Sussex, and M.P. for the Ihiroilill! ( , ) ,,,i 0 0 3 He .Ives' one of the most intimate friends of the late 'Witt t i"' 'ti, ley Sheridan, and is described in Alnore's Life of tb 3 1 ,1,, l' il i f Statesman, as having contributed to his happine" it ' .1,1,1°...1 y ear s . Mr. I. wawa man of considerable attainment., e, ,, eft" I devoted to a ll lib era l institutions, and to the anaelioratton tib lil condition of rocietv. On the - 2'7th ult., at night gouge , near Worcester, il 1 . - o th : 1 01i$ year of his age, Major-Gen Simons, o f the flo p. COMpany's service on the Idedres Establishment. -.itto ------------ ----- -- :',. sgo Pritittd and Published by M. YOUNG, at- we • '. - - - ' r . --;144.1 -112,. Strand.